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Elia Powers Challenges Newsroom Conformity in New Book

News, Local NewsIsaiah HayesSeptember 30, 2024Merill, UMD journalism school, Philip Merrill College of JournalismComment

What "Coffee With the Dean" looks like at Merrill

Stories, NewsNyla CherryDecember 4, 2023Coffee With the Dean, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Philip Merrill Journalism School, Rafael Lorente, Student engagement, JournalismComment

Panel featuring Coach Locksley and Doug Williams discuss book "The Rise of the Black Quarterback."

Sports, StoriesMauriah AllenOctober 23, 2023sports, Michael Locksley, Shirley Povich Center, Book Talk, Panel, Doug Williams, Black quarterbacks, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, The Rise of the Black QuarterbackComment

Former Black Explosion writer and founder among 2023 inductees into Merrill’s Hall of Fame

The Philip Merrill College of Journalism hosted its 50th anniversary celebration and Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 30. There were six inductees, including three Black women— one of whom is the founder of The Black Explosion Patricia “Pat” Wheeler.

Digging through the Oklahoma red dirt, journalist and professor DeNeen Brown uncovers stories of Tulsa’s racist past

A quiet, creative girl born in Oklahoma and raised in Kansas, a young Brown didn’t foresee a career in journalism, but she has taken on a role that is far from how she would self describe. She spent her childhood playing in the Oklahoma red dirt and now spends her adulthood digging to uncover the truth of one of the worst acts of racial terror in American history that happened on that same soil.